... of the lower extremities. A diagnosis of Churg-Strauss syndrome was made because of marked eosinophilia, vasculitis, and a history of asthma. Urinalysis revealed severe proteinuria and microscopic hematuria. A renal biopsy demonstrated extensively crescentic glomerulonephritis. The antineutrophil cytoplasmic...

...Shaul Atar; Amitai S. Oberman; Ofer Ben-Izhak; Edith Flatau Kimura’s disease (KD) is an angiolymphoid proliferative disorder of soft tissue with eosinophilia, with a predilection for head and neck regions in young Oriental men. Renal disease is rarely associated with it. We describe a young non...

...Jaume Almirall; Josep M. Campistol; Manel Sole; Jordi Andreu; Lluis Revert The relevance of eosinophilia in the physiopathology of transplant rejection has yet to be established. The appearance of eosinophilia has been occasionally associated with an adverse prognosis on graft rejection episodes...

... in the predialysis uremic group and this finding was even more accentuated in the dialyzed patients. Marrow eosinophilia correlated linearly with serum creatinine levels in the predialysis group. The peripheral eosinophil count was normal in the uremic group and in part of the hemodialysis group. Marked...

...Oded Shalev; Dvora Rubinger; Yaacov Barlatzky; Juri Kopolovic; Aharon Drukker Marked eosinophilia appeared during acute kidney rejection and receded shortly after removal of the rejected allograft. The eosinophilia could not be attributed to any of its common causes and a drug challenge...

... at the end of the dialysis. It seems that pulmonary sequestration is responsible for both neutropenia and eosinopenia early in dialysis. The marked eosinophilia at 5 h may be the result of a release of eosinophilotactic substances induced by the dialysis procedure itself. 26 02 1982 3 12 2008...